Chair



(NoModel.)

J. SHORT.

CHAIR.

No. 326;165.- Patented Sept. l5, 1885.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE..

JOHN SHORT, OF COLUMBUS, OHIO.

CHAIR.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters 4Patent No. 326,165, datedSeptember 15, 1885,

Application filed July 23, 1883. (No model.)

T all whom t may concern:

Be it known that I, JOHN SHORT, of Columbus, in the county of Franklinand State of Ohio, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Chairs;and I do hereby declare that the following is afull, clear, and exactdescription of the same.

My invention relates to an improvement in the construction ofeh'airs5and the object of the invention is to provide a common chairwith a spring attachment which at small cost will greatly increase thecomfort ofthe occupant of the chair and convert such chair into a kindof rocker.

My invention consists, mainly, in a chair provided with telescopinglegs, and with a spring interposed between the chair-seat and thelegfwhich permits such seat to yield vertically, and, further, indetails of construction shown in the accompanying drawings, andhereinafter fully described and claimed.

In the said drawings, Figure l is afront` elevation of achai'r. Fig. 2is a sectional view of one of the chair-legs.

A represents a chair-bottoni of any pre ferred construction.

BB represent hollow legs or sleeves secured to the bottom, one at eachcorner.

C C are solid legs adapted to telescope within the legs B B and to slidefreely therein. These are the supportinglegs proper of the chair, andrest upon the floor. The sleeves B B are slotted, as shown at b, andwithin these slots AWork the free ends of leaf-springs a a., y

the centers of such springs being secured to thechair-bottom. The endsof the springs rest upon the tops of the solid legs C O, there being`necessarily one of the springs for each `forced upward.

I am aware that hitherto separate spiral springs have beeninclosed ineach hollowleg surrounding a solid leg, by which the chairseat receivesan elastic support.

For some kinds of chairs I may prefer to dispense with the leaf-springsand employa single coil-spring for each leg.

` Having described my invention, I claim- `Combined with a chair-seat,thehollow legs B, having the slot b, the solid legs C within `the saidhollowr legs, and leafsppings a, one for each pair of legs, secured atVthe middle to the chair-bottom, and having their ends extending throughthe slots b and resting on the solid legs, substantiallyT as described.

In testimony whereof Ihave signed my name to this specification in thepresence of two subscribing witnesses.

JOHN SHORT.

Witnesses:

SIDNEYH. SHORT, F. SiEeEL, Jr.

